It was 52 years ago today that the phrase “Miranda warning” was born, after the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about…
Lyle Denniston, Constitution Daily's Supreme Court correspondent, looks at a Supreme Court case about racial bias expressed within…
On Monday, the Supreme Court turned aside a plea to require jurors to satisfy the toughest legal test before they may vote to…
Reading a Supreme Court ruling of last January in a widely expansive way, a divided Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down…
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at the Sixth Amendment issue of a…
In an 8-1 decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled against Florida’s capital punishment scheme, which says that…
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Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Luis v. United States. While case does not directly challenge the…
The Supreme Court justices have had some downtime recently, and the most-prominent jurist in the land had an interesting day on…
In high-profile cases, a routine question is whether or not a jury can be “impartial” as required by the Sixth Amendment. But…
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